Petal Warmth
by basssman7

Comment:
Great details in this. Soft and sharp as well. I suspect this was the sharpness from a good lens and good use of camera settings. I'll be checking back on this one for some details after the challenge. Oh, also an fave for this.

Peek-A-Boo
by JEason

Comment:
Nice colorful blur. Seems to be maybe a little too much empty space on the left.

Spring Warmth
by kleski

Comment:
I'd like to know how you did this within basic rules. I can see what looks like selection edges, but it's been validated, so you did something else.

Lots of impact in this one, I like it. Biggest flaw I can see is the previously mentioned hard edges around the edges of the petals.

Basking in Yellow
by pollybarrowman

Comment:
Your file size is only 29k when you could have used up to 150k. This indicates a lot of JPEG compression, which is taking a lot of detail out of your photo. Look at the pixellation visible around some of the flowers edges and you will see what I am referring to. Check the JPEG compression settings in your image editor and always try to save as close to the limit for a challenge as you can get it without going over.

Also, the focus is a little off. the eye is drawn to a part of the flower that is not quite in focus. Having the flower in focus and the girl a little blurry may have worked better here.

Guardsman's Jacket
by ShugPug

Comment:
The way in which his head is cut off from the frame seems odd and does not work for me. Perhaps a closer, detail view would have worked better.

Connection
by SherwinJames

Comment:
Orange rust and sunset color glow. I like the details showing, though I may have cropped it a little closer myself. I find my eye is drawn up the rail, toward the out of focus area. Cropping a little off the top and placing the bolts a bit more to the right may help the visual flow better. Still a good one, in spite of my nitpicks.

Flame
by Alexbalix

Comment:
Can't get much warmer than this. I wonder though, what would have happened if you'd entered a blue flame in this challenge?

Dream
by MacroMaker

Comment:
Meets the challenge, thought adjusting a monochrome color tone is not along the lines of what I was expecting. Still, to be fair, it's not like sunsets aren't heavily tweaked to present unnatural levels of orange.

Overall, this is pleasing, but I find the lighthouse to be way too far over to the right. I think a different crop was really in order here.

Splash of Summer
by jasonlprice

Comment:
A cute shot, she looks like she was having fun. However, it seems to be just a good snapshot.

Warm...Very warm colors.
by aneyra

Comment:
A nice image and a + for the unique humor value.